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  • Collaborating to fight drug crime: Profile of the Metropolitan Enforcement Group of Southwestern Illinois

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  • Drug task forces were developed to more efficiently and effectively fight proliferation of illicit drugs. Local police have jurisdictional restraints making it difficult to combat drug markets extending through multiple cities, and counties (Smith, Novak, Frank, and Travis, 2000). Drug task forces work across jurisdictions and pool resources, knowledge, and personnel. MEGs and task forces are staffed by officers representing federal, state, county, and local police agencies. Drug task force officers work undercover, using confidential sources, to purchase drugs in order to gather the intelligence to make arrests (Reichert, 2012). There are two kinds of drug task forces that operate in Illinois metropolitan enforcement groups (MEG) and multi-jurisdictional drug task forces.

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Language(s): EN-English

Volume or Year: 2012
Number or Issue: December

Date Created: 12 01 2012
Date Last Modified: 12 01 2012

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